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Di Luo

D’Lo = Duo’Lingo

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Kinda crazy to think he shared the court with Kobe, Metta World Peace and Cooper Flagg

He’s the same age as Booker and KAT, but has had such a wildly different career arc from those two. Crazy there was a time people thought they could team up to form some kind of “superteam”

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Tbf, when a one and done gets into the nba, they are like 19 or 20 and the average lifespan of an NBA player is like 3.5 years so when a player is in the nba for 9-10 years, that does feel like he has been in the nba forever. He was drafted in 2015. He played with Kobe.

I feel like the nba is evolving much faster too. Every 4 years feels like a different generation. The warriors dynasty feels like it has been 2 iterations of the nba when you are looking at style of play. There was like that Giannis/Joker phase where defenders have to rotate on the perimeter like crazy to counter all the doubles and catch up to the ball while the Kawhi/Bubble Lakers era feels like a different playstyle from the Warriors dynasty era.

Exactly what I thought when I read this.

He was a meme before playing bc of “he ain’t even stretch doe” too

IKR, I thought he would be 34-ish.

Damn, from NBA max contracts to Shanghai. That is one wild career turn.

I still remember when he was on the nets and came back from 30 plus on us. I was at that game and dlo was a bad man. That trade to the warriors really fucked up what he was building

That’s funny cause to me, 30 seems too young for him lol

I remember Kobe Bryant really liked rookie D’Lo.

Came in the league in 2015 still crazy someone won’t pick him up he’s an elite shooter and good passer everything else might be questionable but if you can hide him on defense he’s a good player.

soft launch

What was it?

mid-stream?

I just saw a guy fall to his knees in my bathroom

Might be Kidney stones

I just cried on my penis while i was peeing

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Duolingo Russell

Fun fact: Learning to speak Chinese is actually pretty easy. There’s no number, gender, or tense and thus no verb conjugation. When learning a new language, learning the irregular verbs can be one of the hardest, most annoying things, and that just does not exist in Chinese. Yeah there are tones, but in general context > tones. One of the things I had to get better about was actually saying less.

As one example:

English:

I am, you are, he/she/it is, we are, you (pl) are, they are.

I was, you were, he/she/it was, we were, you (pl) were, they were.

and this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Spanish:

All that and more, but this time for two verbs: estar and ser.

Chinese:

是 (shì). Every time.

There are some ‘aspectual particles’ like 了 and 过 to signal completion or the experience of doing something, but the verbs themselves do not conjugate.

Reading Chinese is annoying because you either know a character or you don’t. But speaking Chinese is unironically way easier than speaking English. It’s just so much less complicated.

One of the best

He honored the meme

His daughter was prepared too!

Defense and knowing when to pass, goes a long way.

DLo was a solid NBA level player until his offensive game dropped off a cliff suddenly a couple years back. Not too long ago he was averaging close to 20 ppg as a starter on good efficiency, but he can no longer do that.

Defense more important than offense at the end of the bench.

Technically D Lo already had a contract when Ben signed with the Kings

What? DLo was already on an NBA contract when Simmons signed…

DLo was signed to Grizzlies. He didnt take a buy out because there were no offers probably but he got his full money

It’s wild to me that they were only drafted a year apart.

Norm Powell won a chip with the Raptors in 2019 😉

Booker only been an all star 5 times? Seems low for some reason

Hey, remember in 2016 when DLo secretly recorded Swaggy P talking about cheating on Iggy Azalea and the Lakers locker room basically froze him out? Good times.

The most interesting part was that he was only S&T to GSW, so they could get an asset from the nets for KD. Then he was traded for Wiggins and a pick (Kuminga), who helped GSW win another title.

If KD hadn’t wanted to go to the Nets, who knows where D’Lo (or the GSW) would be today? Arguably the only time KD was the bus driver (with DLO on board).

Borderline All-Star who turned out to be unplayable in the playoffs, goes to the Sharks within five years…wait this isn’t Eric Bledsoe?

he dragged the lakers to the playoffs in his second stint before jj got here, but shit the bed in the playoffs every year

star?

I assume he went where ever he could get the most money

He’s definitely not a Euroleague type player, he would be an all star in the CBA tho

He’d probably struggle or eventually get benched again. I imagine he’s gonna have a lot of fun stat padding on rookie mode

To play in the EuroLeague, you have to be disciplined and able to handle getting yelled at and benched constantly.

Even though he is more talented than the likes of Nunn and Larkin, it is hard to see him having an impact like them. He has too big of an ego and lacks self awareness.

He aint built for that

His skills are more valuable in China. Our league tends to look for ball-dominant scorer types in foreign slots. He fits perfectly

No discipline

CBA is a better economic opportunity

D’Lo is tailor made for the Chinese league, he’s gonna have a statue next to Marbury

My mans was just a closeted Rice King all along

The Skygroper

The Bearded Rat

Di Luo

Haha, so many nba players in that scene

By a stroke of luck, the team name works better in English with the alliteration. That also makes it sound more like a meme lol

Game tik?

My thoughts exactly, this exact joke has probably been said about D’Lo thousands of times, the madman actually did it

He already speaks Mandarin.

Yao think he gives a damn?

What vlog, I never saw that

And Nick young’s 😂😂😂😂

He ain’t even stretch tho

But fr it’s prolly cuz of his Nets run, it was great fun and he had dope cellys

Guys who are “hoopers” generally get weird stan cultures.

D’Lo can get hot and make some flashy passes every once in a while, so people who don’t know anything about basketball think he’s good.

He also had the popularity boost of being the 2nd overall pick by the Lakers (even if it ended in disaster).

Became the scape goat for LeBron’s failures like all his other point guards. This gave him a mass following of underserved haters

NI HAO 🇨🇳

yeah its real. its the team yao ming played for before the nba.

Guangdong Tigers is also real

Because 99% of these guys are not Chinese or even Asian, and most of them don’t want to move themselves and their families to a foreign continent where they don’t know the language and culture. Likely no friends as well. Thats a pretty big shift for someone even if they’re European/African and have already gone through this process before in America.

Plus they probably feel like they should still be able to play in the NBA. So it feels like a failure + it’s embarrassing. There’s only one American player respected for going to China (Marbury) and everyone else gets made fun of for it. Thats why nobody wants to go to China IMO.

I get what you’re saying but I think you’re dismissing the very real power of both pride and familiarity.

Basketball isn’t like pro soccer where a handful of countries all have top tier club teams. Someone leaving, say, Chelsea for PSG or Barcelona is more or less a lateral move as far as status and pay goes.

There’s no equivalent of this in basketball. Even the best non-American teams are still viewed as a massive step down in stature from playing in the NBA. Add in the reality that most American players aren’t used to working, let alone living, overseas, in non-English societies.

Obviously, we’ve seen more former players being willing to go overseas, so I think the trend line is moving in the direction that you’re talking about. But I also don’t think it’s a mystery why you don’t see a lot more American NBA players exploring that option.

Living in another culture is a younger man’s game. It’s kind of just a pain in the ass when you’re older.

Gotta try and collect tenure within the NBA, get that 10 year status and the family gets health insurance for life, and a sweet pension.

This is true, but if I’m being honest I don’t think I’d want to live in China for 9 months out of the year or whatever.

NBA players complain about living in Toronto because of the “hassle” of living in a different country.

So yeah…they’re probably hesitant to play in China.

They don’t mesh well with Asian culture and rules.

Ty Lawson went overseas and started trying to live like an nba player in the states and got kicked out.

you’ve never understood? you’ve never understood why someone wouldn’t want to go to a different country??

Think China has harsher laws. Don’t think you can smoke pot there too. Also look what happened with Britney Griner in Russia

Cause chinese people will laugh at their black ass in their face and there’s nothing they can do about it

They’d just come right up to you and call you a 🥷🏿 a 100 times 🤣

Because it’s a terrible league In a completey different culture in a racist homogeneous country

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While you may be correct, regarding money China will allow him to make massively more through endorsements and celebrity if he stays long term (in China he could be the next Marbury, in Europe he’s nothing special.)

Also, it could be a bit of self awareness on his part since his game doesn’t translate to euroleague play at all but he theoretically should dominate in China.

Honestly part of it is probably the adventure of it. If I were from the US, living in China for year would probably be more exciting to me than a year in France or whatever. That’s completely subjective though.

And in terms of money, if he’s a success there and can get endorsements, the market is massive.

Pretty sure him being signed under Li-ning/Way of Wade has something to do with it. Maybe added bonuses like a Chinese Aspiration deal

People can love different parts about the game. Just because someone doesn’t particularly like super structured and rigid team ball doesn’t mean they’ve “lost their love for the game”.

Some people just like to hoop, doesn’t always have to be competing at the highest levels

Contracts are the same as well, there’s a salary cap in the Chinese League, so it’s not even about the money.

Endorsements aren’t the same

It’s about the attention And the market.

His salary might not be that much but he will most likely be a celebrity and sell a bajillion shoes.

CBA season is wayyy shorter

B-league pays just as much now for top Japanese players and imports. Product is much better and teams play NBA style basketball. The only reason to play in the CBA is if you just want to jack up shots and elbow people.